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Five Years Later, Media Blame Afghans for US-Engineered Disaster 

Last month marked five years since the US withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power. The US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and the resultant war, directly killed more than 176,000 Afghan people, including more than 46,000 civilians. Yet major US media outlets have covered the anniversary by muddying the US’s role in the country’s hardships—writing as though Afghanistan’s history began in August 2021.

A CNN article (8/15/26) by Kara Fox offered an egregious bit of historical revisionism:

In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies.

Afghanistan hasn’t “become” a human rights and humanitarian emergency “since” the US troop withdrawal. It was a disaster during—and in no small part because of—the US war and occupation.

For instance, in November 2019, towards the end of the US occupation, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) estimated that approximately 2.44 million Afghan were in an “emergency situation” in terms of food insecurity. The next year, Amnesty International noted that four million Afghans were internally displaced and facing widespread problems of “inadequate housing, food insecurity [and] insufficient access to sanitation.”

Both years, the International Rescue Committee put Afghanistan in its top 10 “crises the world should be watching.” Evidently such conditions don’t meet CNN’s threshold for a “humanitarian emergency.”

In terms of rights, a 2019 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report documented Afghan strike forces that were “recruited, trained, equipped and overseen by the CIA” committing

serious abuses between late 2017 and mid-2019. They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations—some amounting to war crimes—that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity.

In 2020, HRW would go on to criticize the US-installed Afghan government for “fail[ing] to prosecute senior officials responsible for sexual assault, torture and killing civilians.” One can debate what constitutes a human rights “emergency,” but it’s clear that rights violations were a defining feature of the US occupation.

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New Report Confirms Jack Smith and Biden DOJ Coordinated to Spy on Their Political Opposition

A new report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan confirms Special Counsel Jack Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.

Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.

Jack Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.

House Republicans also released transcripts from five members of Jack Smith’s team.

Transcript from J.P. Cooney, a member of Jack Smith’s team, once again confirm coordination between the special counsel and the Biden White House.

“During your time at the Special Counsel’s Office, did you ever interact with the White House?” the GOP investigator asked JP Cooney.

“I did have some interactions with a staff member in the White House Counsel’s Office,” JP Cooney replied.

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OOPS: Kamala Harris Says the Quiet Part Out Loud as She Whines About Republican Efforts to Ensure Fair Elections 

Kamala Harris has made a damning admission about how her party ‘wins’ elections that could create a few headaches for her party as the midterm elections approach.

As CBS News reported, Harris spoke during a Tuesday evening NAACP forum in Detroit, Michigan, after campaigning for Muslim Marxist Abdul El-Sayed earlier in the day.

The purpose of the forum was to rally Democrats behind El-Sayed and outline the stakes of the midterm elections.

At one point, Harris whined about how the GOP and the Trump Administration have, in some cases, removed all the tools they’ve relied on to ‘win’ elections over the past half-century.

These ‘tools’ purging the voter rolls, beating the Democrats at their own game when it comes to gerrymandering, and ensuring more reasonable polling locations.

In short, Kamala Harris is ADMITTING Democrats have depended on illegal voters, shady vote counting, and rigged district lines to maintain power.

Now, they’re having to fight on more even ground.

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Crooked Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson LOSES BIG IN COURT After Ordering Clerks to Defy Federal Law and Delete Election Records Following Election

On August 12, The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray reported that Michigan attorney Kevin Kijewski filed a verified complaint in the Michigan Court of Claims on behalf of Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer.

Kijewski, a former Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General, first gained statewide attention for successfully defending Clifford Frost, one of the Republican alternate electors targeted by Attorney General Dana Nessel. After securing the dismissal of the charges against Frost, Kijewski was inspired to seek the AG nomination, running on a platform to end partisan lawfare and restore the rule of law.

Here is a screenshot of Michelle McQueer’s lawsuit against Jocelyn Benson.

The lawsuit challenged Rule R 168.48, issued under Benson’s authority, which requires clerks to delete electronic poll book software and all associated files within seven days after an election is certified.

Could Benson’s requirement to willfully destroy election documents in advance of the 22-month federal and state preservation statute put clerks in jeopardy of being criminally charged?

Federal law states:

-52 U.S.C. § 20701 requires every “officer of election” to retain and preserve all records relating to voting in federal elections for 22 months.

-52 U.S.C. § 20702 makes it a federal crime for any person to willfully destroy, conceal, or alter those records.
Penalty: up to a $1,000 fine, up to one year in prison, or both.

The complaint argues the rule collides with federal statute (52 U.S.C. § 20701), which requires election officers to preserve all records relating to acts of voting in federal elections for 22 months. Willful destruction of those records is a federal crime. Michigan law (MCL 168.811) similarly prohibits the destruction of election returns, poll lists, and federal-office ballots before the same 22-month period expires.

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Vance Fraud Task Force Condemned as ‘Smokescreen’ for Booting 700,000 More People Off Healthcare

The Trump administration is planning to boot more than 700,000 people from their Affordable Care Act coverage as part of a purported initiative to root out fraud in the program—an effort that campaigners said is nothing more than a pretext to kick more people off healthcare.

Vice President JD Vance, who is leading the White House’s “Task Force to Eliminate Fraud,” announced the planned ACA purge during a press conference on Tuesday alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, whose agency has touted a right-wing think tank’s dubious claim that millions of ACA enrollees are on the program improperly.

Vance insisted during Tuesday’s press conference that the administration is putting itself “under an extraordinary burden of proof” to ensure its mass removal doesn’t impact people who are eligible for ACA coverage, but advocates were not convinced.

“Vance’s task force is a smokescreen for kicking people off coverage,” declared the advocacy group Protect Our Care. The organization’s president, Brad Woodhouse, said in a statement that Vance’s task force “is nothing more than a bullshit distraction—a political stunt designed to throw even more people off their coverage while pretending to save taxpayers’ money.”

“At a time when millions of Americans are already losing coverage and facing skyrocketing costs, Vance and this administration are making the crisis exponentially worse,” said Woodhouse. “They are piling on more red tape, more confusion, and more opportunities for people to lose the coverage they rely on. Families need coverage they can afford and count on when they get sick. Vance’s task force won’t accomplish that. It’s a smokescreen for an administration whose sole mission is to make it harder to get and stay covered but to shower billionaires with tax breaks instead.”

Millions of people have lost ACA and Medicaid coverage since the start of President Donald Trump’s second White House term, due in large part to a Republican budget law that cut Medicaid by more than $800 billion and did nothing to extend enhanced ACA subsidies, sending premiums soaring.

Trump administration officials have baselessly claimed that their anti-fraud efforts were the key driver of ACA enrollment declines this year.

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Romanian Regime Arrests Presidential Election Winner — Raid Drags Georgescu to Jail in Front of His Son After Annulled Election

DIICOT, Romania’s law enforcement agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes, and terrorism-related offenses, and the national police ambushed Călin Georgescu in traffic before 7 a.m. Monday in Bucharest.

According to reports from the European press, authorities yanked him from the car with his son, Petru, still inside and raced both to the family house in Mogoșoaian. Masked police units then smashed the front door with a ram while Cristela Georgescu and their youngest boy, Pavel, stood inside getting ready for school. The raid dragged on for nine hours.

Officers hit five addresses that morning in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani, and Buftea.

They filmed themselves storming the property and claimed they found €5,000. Georgescu was then hauled to DIICOT headquarters and marched out in handcuffs that evening. He spent the night in Bucharest’s central jail.

🇷🇴 Georgescu has been taken in by DIICOT over an alleged €1.1M fraud scheme and he is in hearings now…

No conviction and the allegations still have to be proven in court. No evidence has been presented since 2024…

Fmr. presidential candidate George Simion is standing with…

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 21, 2026

Prosecutors now demand 30 days of preventive lock-up. The regime accuses him of running an organized crime group and committing fraud with particularly serious consequences. The story they suddenly revived claims he and two others posed as foreign money men in 2021.

They supposedly promised businessman Răzvan Leu fat Swiss loans in return for cash guarantees. Leu handed over more than €1.1 million. The loans never came. Sources name Ionel Rusen and Italian Massimiliano Arena as the other two.

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All 10 ActBlue Witnesses Take The Fifth As GOP Says Probe Is “Far From Over”

All ten ActBlue employees and board members deposed by House investigators have invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about the Democratic Party’s dominant fundraising platform. Five of the ten are board members, all deposed in the past five weeks, and the three committees running the probe say they are not done. Their third report, released last week, alleged ActBlue accepted a substantial volume of foreign and fraudulent donations with minimal scrutiny.

The investigation’s third report, released last week, alleged ActBlue accepted a substantial volume of foreign and fraudulent donations with minimal scrutiny.

It builds on the first report, released in April 2025, which found that ActBlue skipped standard verification steps such as CVV checks, identified at least 22 significant fraud campaigns, and documented 237 prepaid-card donations from foreign IP addresses in a single month before the 2024 election.

Investigators found that skipping those checks opened the door to smurfing, the practice of dressing up one illegal mega-donation as a parade of small contributions filed under real people’s names. ActBlue’s much-touted “passport verification” process appears to have checked nothing against any government database. Fraud analysts inside the company faced pressure to wave through foreign-flagged donations, in one case clearing a donor on the strength of a LinkedIn profile.

House Oversight, House Administration, and House Judiciary are still working the case now, and none of them show signs of backing off. “Whether it’s allowing fraudsters to steal taxpayer dollars or accepting illegal foreign donations through ActBlue, Democrats have proven themselves to be the party of fraud,” Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer told Fox News Digital. “Our investigation into ActBlue is far from over. We expect more documents and testimony in the weeks ahead.”

Republicans have complained about ActBlue’s verification standards for years, and the company insists it has tightened those safeguards since the investigation began. That claim falls apart against the committees’ own findings. The report says ActBlue took “a more lenient approach” to fraud prevention in 2024, after Steil first questioned its practices in October 2023, and the internal records released last week show employees approving donations despite unresolved red flags about the money’s origins.

ActBlue still denies wrongdoing and has given no indication it plans to return any flagged contribution.

“ActBlue’s own admissions raise serious questions about its fraud prevention practices, including a so-called passport verification process that did not actually verify or check entries against any government database,” Committee on House Administration Chairman Rep. Bryan Steil told Fox News Digital on Friday. “All options are on the table to ensure we get to the bottom of what is going on at ActBlue.”

A spokesperson for Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan confirmed to Fox News Digital that the panel “will continue aggressive oversight of ActBlue, including additional depositions.”

Co-founder Matt DeBergalis was among the ten who took the Fifth, and CEO Regina Wallace-Jones did the same during a public hearing. In a letter to Steil cited by the report, she claimed donors with non-U.S. addresses must submit a passport number to get verified. The GOP report picked that claim apart, noting the system only confirms the number contains the right count of characters, not that it belongs to an actual passport.

In one internal ActBlue memo, a donation with a Hong Kong IP address was described as a “great accept,” reasoning that none of the donor’s other signals raised eyebrows. Another argued a previously denied contribution should have gone through because the name, email, and billing address all lined up, even though it was a foreign contribution. A supervisor waved through a donation that had set off a lot of alarms because the donor deserved the benefit of the doubt. In one case involving a Missouri billing address with every sign pointing to Canada, an analyst approved the donation because “Twitter seems to confirm that they are a real person.”

Now the National Republican Congressional Committee wants House Democrats to cut ties with ActBlue. “House Democrats cannot claim ignorance while continuing to rely on a fundraising platform facing serious allegations,” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said. “The National Republican Congressional Committee officially calls on every House Democrat to cut ties with ActBlue and return any illegal contributions funneled to their campaigns through the platform.” Asked whether it would return any donations, ActBlue pointed back to its own statement instead of answering the question.

“There’s nothing to see here,” ActBlue said, arguing a third-party forensic analysis had undercut a central GOP claim and accusing Republicans of “orchestrating another political stunt before rushing out of town weeks early to go campaign.” That review of ActBlue’s 2023 data found 99.99% of contribution dollars came from donors who gave a U.S. address or a passport number, according to the company’s release, though it did not test whether either was genuine. The company framed the entire affair as an effort “to silence organizations they believe threaten their agenda.”

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Texas Dem Ends Campaign After Previous Mortgage Fraud Conviction Comes to Light

Democrat Ericka Lomick has suspended her campaign for Texas House District 93 after questions surfaced about a federal felony conviction.

Lomick announced the decision Monday. “After careful consideration, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for House District 93,” she said. “Although this was not an easy decision, I am convinced that it was the right one for the people of HD 93.”

Her campaign said questions had arisen about her eligibility to serve as the district’s representative. It said she was stepping aside so voters could elect someone “without the burden of defending against attacks that would threaten to derail the business of the people.”

The scrutiny followed opposition research posted Sept. 17 by Protect and Serve Texas PAC. The PAC cited a federal mortgage-fraud case, a 63-month prison sentence, and an alleged $300,000 federal lien.

“Federal court records show Lomick, known then as Ericka Flood, was charged in 2010 as part of a federal mortgage fraud investigation in North Carolina,” Texas Scorecard reported. The outlet cited federal prosecutors as saying she was involved in the scheme as a mortgage broker and promoter.

Federal records reviewed by The Dallas Express indicated prosecutors charged her with mortgage-fraud conspiracy, bank fraud, money-laundering conspiracy, and concealment money laundering. Court records show she pleaded guilty in 2011 and received concurrent federal prison terms, including 63 months.

Lomick later sought to vacate the sentence, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. A federal district judge denied the motion in 2012. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed a later appeal as untimely.

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DOJ Announces Charges Against Utah Postal Worker For Trashing More Than 300 Mail-In Ballots

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced a postal worker was indicted for discarding more than 300 mail-in ballots in a dumpster.

A grand jury indicted 34-year-old Damon Matai Seei on September 16 on one count of Unlawful Secretion, Destruction, and Delay of Mail.

Seei was arraigned at a federal courthouse in Utah on Tuesday afternoon.

“[On] June 3, 2026, SEEI threw away some of the mail, which he had been entrusted to deliver, into a dumpster in a church parking lot. He later admitted in an interview that he threw away the mail because he wanted to “lighten his workload” so he could presumably go home earlier,” the Justice Department’s detention memo read.

“When American voters lawfully cast their vote, they should feel confident that it is counted,” said Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter.

He continued, “Allegedly throwing away hundreds of ballots is a serious federal crime that undermines the integrity of our elections. Ballot integrity is not a partisan issue.”

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NYC House Seat Goes To Mexico-First DSA Candidate Who Hails “Comrades” In Morena

A radical Democratic Socialists of America candidate who is poised to waltz into a deep-blue New York House seat used Mexican Independence Day to all but declare that she is Mexico First.

Claire Valdez, a card-carrying DSA member and New York State Assemblywoman who secured the Democrat nomination for the state’s 7th Congressional District, posted a tweet on X celebrating 215 years since Mexicans “fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor.” Valdez then went one step further, making the kind of declaration that should end the career of any Democrat or Republican who dared to utter something similar about a foreign country.

“I’ll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York’s first Mexican American representative,” Valdez wrote, before gushing that she is “strengthened not just by Mexico’s history but its present” and boasting about a meeting last month with her “comrades in Morena,” the leftist party that currently rules Mexico.

Valdez lauded left-wing radicals for “standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us” and “building a government for the working class.” The DSA lawmaker capped off the post with a triumphant “¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!”

Notably absent from Valdez’s message was any mention of cutting taxes for struggling New Yorkers, securing the southern border, or tackling the soaring grocery prices that have hammered working families. In their place was the rhetoric of a hard-left activist who apparently views the United States Congress as merely one more battlefield in a global class war, complete with “comrades” embedded in a foreign government. Valdez has claimed that she is “a dual citizen of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation and the United States.”

Valdez’s tweet quickly ignited a firestorm of condemnation online.

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